SEBASTIAN ACKER: TRACES OF OTHER PLACES
Artist’s book
17 × 24 cm, 112 pages
Hardcover
Language: English
Texts: Sebastian Acker, Sylvia Chan, Annette Tietenberg
Design: Friederike C. Hamann
Editor: Duncan Ballantyne-Way
Copy editing: Sarah Quigley
Publisher: Kerber, Bielefeld / Berlin, 2021
ISBN: 978-3-7356-0761-4
Supported by Stiftung Kunstfonds
Traces of Other Places is a continuation of Mountain Village (2017), a video work by Sebastian Acker and Phil Thompson. The book unites photos, film stills, and travel notes from an often surreal-looking journey through China’s copy-laden landscape, where not only have they erected sections of European cities, but also built a replica of an entire Austrian village. Simultaneously contemporary and anachronistic, the pictures in Traces of Other Places resist simple definitions of authenticity and imitation, not only by examining the reality experienced in the replicas, but also by shedding light on the tourism industry’s performative promotion of the European originals.
« When the news spread that a copy of the picturesque market town of Hallstatt was to be built in the Chinese province of Guangdong, it triggered two types of reactions in German-speaking countries: offended aggression and disbelieving ridicule. (…) Traces of Other Places collapses both thought constructs swiftly and decisively. »
Stefan Fischer
Süddeutsche Zeitung
24H SKULPTUR. NOTES ON TIME SCULPTURES
Exhibition catalogue
Editors: Ursula Ströbele, Andreas Greiner, Jan-Philipp Sexauer
17 × 24 cm, 96 pages
Language: English/German
Publisher: Distanz, Berlin 2015
ISBN: 978-3-95476-125-8
Artwork contribution, p. 94:
Sebastian Acker
Object with One Hole, 2012
4:27 min HD video, looped (available via QR code)
The exhibition 24h Skulptur at Galerie Sexauer, Berlin, which paired Time Sculptures by young artists like Alicja Kwade, Humberto Diaz, and Awst & Walther with benchmarks of the genre by Dennis Oppenheim, Roman Signer, and Franz Erhard Walther, lasted no more than one night and one day. Most of the sculptures on display presented constantly changing appearances; other pieces were performed live as sculptural actions.
The book “24h Skulptur. Notes on Time Sculptures” features color photographs of all exhibits as well as statements by the artists on the significance of time for their work. A conversation between the curators, Ursula Ströbele and Andreas Greiner, explores the meanings of the idea of the sculpture today, and an essay by Julia Wallner examines the challenges museums encounter in handling ephemeral artifacts. The book complements the ample illustrations with two virtual sculptures by Sebastian Acker and Niko Princen and combines a critical study of the expanded conception of sculpture with documentation of a singular exhibition. An intervention by Norgard Kröger makes every copy a unique work of art.
DIE AUSSTELLUNGSKOPIE
Kulturwissenschaft
Author: Annette Tietenberg (Hg.)
17 × 24 cm, 344 pages
Language: German
Publisher: Böhlau, Cologne 2015
ISBN: 978-3-412-22120-1
Artwork contributions:
Mountain Village, 2017
pp. 99, 107, 108
Sie begegnen uns in Museen, Kunsthallen und Kunstvereinen: Ausstellungskopien. Gefertigt werden sie, um materiell verloren gegangene Kunstwerke zu ersetzen. Dabei sind sie das Ergebnis eines medialen Transformationsprozesses. So werden Tatlins “Eck-Konter-Relief” oder Schwitters’ “Merzbau”, die das Bild der “klassischen Moderne” geprägt haben, auf der Basis historischer Fotografien nachgeahmt. Auch Arbeiten der 1960er- und 1970er-Jahre – einst konzipiert, um Zustände der Veränderung zu durchlaufen und spurlos zu verschwinden – werden rekonstruiert. Ist dies eine dienliche Form, einstige Ausstellungssituationen erlebbar zu machen? Oder verstellt die Ausstellungskopie den Zugang zur damaligen künstlerischen Praxis? An konkreten Beispielen gehen die Autorinnen und Autoren solchen Fragen nach.
KITSON RD. NO. 6
Collective artists’ Book
Edited by Fernholme Road Living Project
15 × 21 cm, 58 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Camberwell Press, London, 2015
ISBN: 978-1-908971-40-1
Edition of 150
Artwork contribution, p. 46:
Untitled (Hoover), 2015
The Kitson Road Living Project was a domestic dwelling and project space in South East London, operating from January 2013 to July 2014. As well as providing a communal living structure the Project hosted parties and dinners, two exhibitions and a live concert. Now they have released a book, with contributions by: Elene Abashidze, Sebastian Acker, Miriam Austin, Jacob Bard-Rosenberg, Sarah Boulton, Harry Burke, Peter Sebastian Jonathan & Charlotte Burleigh, Martin Catchpole, Lea Collet, Jesse Darling, Johannes Ekholm, Caspar Jade Heinemann, Krzysztof Honowski, Sophie Hoyle, Maya Inbar, Boris Jardine, Sophie Jung, Sarai Kirshner, Just Kostikovaite, Steph Kretowicz, Leslie Kulesh, Paul Kneale, Julia Marchand, Laura McLean, Seth Parker Woods, Athena Papadopoulos & Nic Cheveldave, Imran Perretta, Eleanor Saitta, Nika Sakhanberidze, Takeshi Shiomitsu, Marios Stamatis, Laura Sundermann, Matthias Tharang, Artie Vierkant, Matt Welch
Jesse Darling about the publication: dazeddigital.com
HOW TO SLEEP FASTER. ISSUE 2
EPUB edition
Editors: Rózsa Farkas and Tom Clark
Language: English
Publisher: Arcadia Missa, London 2012
Artwork contribution:
Object with One Hole, 2012
(digital publication)
With works by:
Sebastian Acker, Harry Burke, Dora & Maja, Alice Charlotte Ray, Harry Sanderson, Takeshi Shiomitsu, Helga Wretman & Juliette Bonneviot
XY/Z
Print Collection
Edited by Jessica Nina Mello, Maria Angelica Madero, Kasia Depta-Garapich
37 screen prints by 37 artists
47 × 37 cm
Publisher: Slade School of Fine Art, London, 2011
Edition of 50
Artwork contribution:
Untitled (Chairs), 2011
With works by:
Sebastian Acker, Edward Allington, Sarah Bayliss, Tintin Cooper, Kasia Depta-Garapich, Simon Faithfull, Lilah Fowler, Maya Fujiwara, Catharina Cronenberger Golebiowska, YoungHee Hong, Kazumi Hyodo, Yuko Ishida, Karl Otto Karl, Hyeisoo Kim, Ruby Kwon, Jeongmin Lee, Min Jung Lee, Jakeline Londoño, María Angélica Madero, Terence McCormack, Luke McCreadie, Jessica Nina Mello, Nicole Morris, Elaine Mullings, Atsuko Nakamura, Haruka Ono, Karin Ruggaber, Zoe Schoenherr, Luuk Schröder, Jung Ju Seo, Hye-Kyung Son, Julia Tcharfas, Phil Thompson, Julia Vogl, Poppy Whatmore, Jiho Won, Takuma Zushi